Boar Fish

Boarfish in an aquarium of Aquazoo Dusseldorf

The boar fish ( Capros aper ) is a small marine fish that is native to the eastern North Atlantic from the coast of southern Norway to Senegal. He lives in the Mediterranean, especially in the western part and the Skagerrak, but not in the North Sea. The school of fish to keep in depths of 40-700 meters above bedrock, sandy areas or coral reefs.

Features

The Boarfish should be a maximum of 30 inches long, but usually remains at a length of 13 to 15 centimeters. Males remain smaller than the female fish. The boar fish is high backs and brick red color. The forehead is indented concave. His eyes are large, the snout pointed and as long as the eye diameter. The mouth is very wide vorstreckbar ( protractil ) and then forms a short tube with which consists of pelagic crustaceans and worms prey is sucked. The first, hartstrahlige dorsal fin is supported by nine to ten fin rays, the weichstrahlige 23-25 ​​fin rays. The hartstrahlige dorsal fin is higher than the weichstrahlige. The anal fin has three hard - and 22 to 24 soft rays.

System

The Boarfish is the eponymous species of the family Eberfische ( Caproidae ) and only species of the genus Capros. The Eberfische family has traditionally been in the order of Peter Fishy ( Zeiformes ) asked, but then conducted since 2006 by the author of the standard work on fish systematics Joseph S. Nelson in the order Perciformes ( Perciformes ). Betancur et al. (2013 ) indicate an uncertain position within the perch family ( Percomorphaceae ) for the family.